PfSense pinging gateway every second

[lotveito]

Hi

I work at a school and have resently installed pfSense 2.0. It works wonderfully, and I have successfully managed to set up all the rules we wanted, even those I failed to create using our old firewall. Thank you pfSense.

But I have noticed that our pfSense box constantly keeps pinging the gateway on the wan. One ping per second. This creates unwanted traffic. I have searched the forums and the documentation but I can not find any mention of this, exept I understand that pinging of gateways are sometimes used to decide wich gateway to chose in a multiple wan scenario. But we have only one wan, and I dont want to keep pinging the gateway. How can I turn this off? Any help or hints would be apreaciated.

I first used 2.0 rc1 but I have now upgraded to rc2. The ping is the same.

Yours,
Lars Olav Tveito

[stephenw10]

pfSense uses pings to monitor the gateway for connection quality. The actual volume of traffic is very small.
You can set it to monitor a different address on that interface, the modem for example, from the web interface: System>>Routing>>Gateways. Click the edit button next to WAN gateway and enter an alternative IP.
You could try entering the WAN interface IP, I don't know what would happen though!

Steve

Edit:
@cmb:

It's for monitoring and quality graph. No way to disable it at this time short of hacking the source yourself.